Residence time distribution model for soil filters

Water Environment Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 168-174

  Pattanaik, Biplab R ^b   Gupta, Ajay ^b   Shankar, Hariharan S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b IITB ^*

Author keywords

Dispersion model; Dispersion number; Earthworm cultured soil filter; Residence time distribution; Soil filter; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELL CULTURE; DATA REDUCTION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

PECLET NUMBER; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); SOIL FILTERS; TWO-PARALLEL-CELL DISPERSION MODEL;

SOILS;

TRACER;

RESIDENCE TIME; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISPERSION; EARTHWORM; FILTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; SOIL; TIME; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; FILTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

ANIMALS; FILTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 3242772292     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143004X141708     Document Type: Article

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